Let's Eat Magazine - May 2014

In this issue

Since we began working on Let’s Eat, I’ve always wanted to do an
issue on Filipino food. It has been the primed as the new culinary
thing, hailed by magazines like New York and Esquire UK as the
likely successor to the Asian food frenzy. Beloved by celebrity
chefs such as Anthony Bourdain and food show hosts like
Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods (who proclaimed our local
cuisine as “the next big thing”), Filipino food has often found
itself in the spotlight, but not in the world’s culinary stage, unlike
our other Asian brethren such as the Thai, Japanese, and Chinese
in terms of taking over food trends and hotspots. So for the Let’s
Eat team, it’s about time we devote a full issue on our beloved
homegrown food.
We showcase the best restaurants that deliver local flavors
that are both innovative but still grounded by the taste of good
home cooking that we’ve come to love. Places like Sarsa, Pino,
and Corazon all fit our criteria for a restaurant that successfully
infuses modern sensibility to classic Filipino cuisine—and taking
them on a different spin.
And as usual, we cap off our issue with a dessert and a
drinking place, Breakfast and Pies and Speakeasy, respectively.
Our new haunts after a long day of eating.
Kain na